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Tue, 07/12/2010 - 12:08 by Natalie James
Elizabeth Edwards, the estranged wife of former presidential candidate John Edwards, is seriously ill as her cancer has taken a sharp turn for the worse and she may have just weeks to live, according to the Associated Press and other tabloid reports.
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Tue, 07/12/2010 - 01:19 by Anonymous
Milwaukee -- Henry "Hank" Raymonds, the fourth-winningest coach in Marquette University basketball history, died Monday at 86, the school said. He had cancer.
He racked up 126 wins as men's basketball coach at the school, and before that was Al McGuire's top assistant on the Golden Eagles' NCAA championship run in 1977.
Beloved for his loyalty to his former players, Raymonds was a familiar face for nearly a half-century on the school's downtown Milwaukee campus, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
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Fri, 03/12/2010 - 22:18 by Prince damin
Chicago -- Former Chicago Cubs infielder and longtime broadcaster Ron Santo died in Arizona of complications from bladder cancer at age 70, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Friends of the family said Santo lapsed into a coma Wednesday and died Thursday, the Tribune said.
Santo, a third baseman who was diagnosed with diabetes as a teenager, fought through debilitating injuries and, while working as an analyst for WGN-AM, the team's flagship radio station, had both of his legs amputated.
The popular broadcaster expected to return for the 2011 season.
"What else am I going to do?" Santo, a diabetic, said during this past season. "Doing the Cubs games is like therapy for me."
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Mon, 15/11/2010 - 09:30 by Prince damin
New York -- The Danish-born ballerina Lone Isaksen died of cancer in New York at age 68, the Juilliard School announced.
Isaksen brought a distinctive mix of traditional classical training to contemporary works in American companies like the Harkness Ballet and the Joffrey Ballet, The New York Times reported. She died at her home in Manhattan on Nov. 2.
Her husband of 40 years, Lawrence Rhodes, is director of Juilliard's dance division; he survives, as does her son Mark Rhodes, and a grandchild.
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Sat, 06/11/2010 - 09:42 by Prince damin
Cambridge, England -- A cancer-fighting vaccine that may help the body's immune system attack tumors could be developed in the future, U.K. researchers say.
Researchers at Cambridge University have discovered the mechanism tumor cells use to protect themselves from the body's immune system, and they say by turning off the mechanism the body might cure itself of the disease, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.
The team found a protein known as fibroblast activation protein alpha stops the body's immune system from attacking cancer cells.
FAP is found in stromal cells, a kind of cells in the immune system that normally rush to the scene of a wound to aid healing.
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Mon, 01/11/2010 - 22:24 by Prince damin
Portland, Ore. -- Maurice Lucas, a four-time NBA all-star who broke into the league with the Portland Trail Blazers and helped them win a title, died of cancer, the team said.
Lucas was 58.
Jack Ramsay, the coach who led the team to its only NBA championship in 1977, the year after Lucas joined the Blazers, told The (Portland) Oregonian he said farewell to Lucas a few weeks ago.
"I was so happy that I saw him,'' Ramsay said. "He sensed then that he wasn't going to make it, you know. So we had a long chat. It was very nice. I really feel blessed that I had that time with him."
Lucas died Sunday of bladder cancer.
The Trail Blazers' Web site had a picture of Lucas Monday with the inscription: "Maurice Lucas (The Enforcer)."
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Mon, 01/11/2010 - 15:00 by Neha Gupta
Green tea is unable to prevent breast cancer, claims a novel study aimed at finding out if the consumption of green tea was the responsible factor behind the lower rate of breast cancer cases in Asian countries compared to the West.
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Tue, 26/10/2010 - 12:42 by Ralph Casale
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Mon, 25/10/2010 - 23:38 by Prince damin
London -- Jamaican reggae singer Gregory Isaacs has died of cancer at his home in London, his family said. He was 59.
The 1970s icon dubbed "Cool Ruler" was known as much for his designer suits, cocaine addiction and brushes with the law as he was for his "lovers rock" songs "Night Nurse," "All I Have is Love," "My Only Lover" and "Slave Master," the Los Angeles Times said Monday.
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Fri, 22/10/2010 - 11:15 by Deepika Garg
Aspirin, in small doses, can help cut the risk of colon cancer, a new study has found. British researchers reported that low doses of aspirin can reduce bowel cancer cases by a quarter and cut death rate from the disease by more than a third.
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Thu, 21/10/2010 - 15:43 by Anter Prakash Singh
A recent study that African American women having breast cancer are at a much more risk of dying due to disease as compared to white women afflicted with same disease.
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Sun, 03/10/2010 - 22:30 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- U.S. singer-composer Melissa Etheridge says she is ready to date again after splitting with longtime partner Tammy Lynn Michaels.
Etheridge, 49, at Hard Rock's Breast Cancer Awareness program launch this week, told People magazine "You gotta be fearless about these things." She added, "There is no fear when you choose love. The more you choose love, the more love is in your life. It gets easier and easier."
Etheridge sharied custody of her two youngest children with Michaels. "I have four kids," she told the magazine. "It's hard because, of course, it's easier with two (parents), but you're a mom and you do what you do."
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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